Safety-device for stoves

Abstract

 Children safety device for cookers or stoves where such a device must be used when using the stove. The children safety device comprises a front plate (1) which may be raised in tracks (A6) and cooperating side plates (2) which together comprise an at least partially peripheral obstacle, and optionally an additional down-folding panel which may cover the switch panel and/or the stove door in a down-folded position.

Description

[0001] The present invention concerns a safety-panel for children on cookers and stoves, where the panel is movable and all the time prevents that children may hurt themselves either by use or when the stove is turned off.

[0002] Many accidents happening in a society are accidents in the house, and of such accidents misfortunes involving children and soves is a large group. On the background that children are curious and not allways are concious of the "modus operandi" or the dangers of household apparatuses, it is important with children safety devices which prevent the children from being hurt. In this connection children safety devices on cookers/stoves are very important, both because the child may become seriously burnt by hot material such as pots or hot fat inside these on top of the stove, and because the stove may be ruined if the child for play turns on the switches in the control panel on the stove when it is unsued. To prevent that children turn on stoves, prevents in addition that possible fire may occur.

[0003] It is accordingly of importance that both these modes of operation are achieved in children safety devices, namely both that the child does not come to harm, and that the stove netiher is damaged by f.ex. overheating, and such a children safety device ought to be safe for the child both from the front and the sides of the cooker/stove.

[0004] There are previously known different devices which attempt to produce children safety devices for stoves, where one or the other of the above mentioned modes of action are attempted to be achieved.

[0005] There is thus known from DE Patent No. 2.658.099 an into the stove folded switch panel where the switches are not accessible in the folded position. Such a device has, however, for its purpose mainly the protection of the clockwork inside the switch panel and produces no safety for the plates or the pots which may be present on top of the stove.

[0006] Also European Patent No. 0.183.887 discloses a switch panel on a stove, where the switch panel is protected by fastening a plate in front of the switches. Here there is, however, neither produced protection for the heating plates or the pots which may be present on top of the stove.

[0007] In SE Publ. No. 385.402 there is disclosed a children safety device where there is achieved security for both the switch panel and the heating plates of the stove. Such a children safety device has however the disadvantage that the user may forget to mount/fold down the safety device during use of the stove, and thus do that the children safety device completely loses its function.

[0008] When such a safety device in addition is not in use, it has neither the function that it makes certain that the switch panel is not accessible.

[0009] It is thus a purpose for the present invention to produce a children safety device for cookers/stoves where such a safety device during use of the stove protects against the accesssability to the heating plates and the switch panel, and when the stove is not in use protects against the accessability to the switch panel at the same time that such a children safety device must be used when the stove is to be used.

[0010] To achieve these purposes there is produced a children safety device for stoves comprising the features which appears from the preamble of claim 1, and which in addition comprises the features which are given in the character­izing part of claim 1.

[0011] According to the invention the front part of the children safety device may be directed in its up-and-down movement by directing devices such as directing tracks which may be mounted on the sides of the stove. Such tracks may optionally do that the front panel of the safety device may not be demounted and that the safety device must be used when the stove is to be used.

[0012] The front part of the children safety device may in addition comprise steering tracks for its side walls so that such side walls are erected simultaneously as the front plate is raised. For this purpose the side walls of the children safety device according to the invention may be hinged in the heating plate part/top part of the stove, preferably horizontally.

[0013] The children safety device according to the invnetion may also, as a possible and optional feature, comprise an additional front panel which may slide on the outside of a first front panel. Such an additional downfolding front panel has the purpose of protecting against access­ability to the cooker's/stove's switch panel and/or stove handle when the stove and the children safety device is in use in upfolded position.

[0014] The children safety device according to the invention may be made of any convenient material such as plastic or metal. for the user of the cooker/stove to have control over the indicator lamps which show whether heating plates/­stove is in use, the children safety device according to the invnetion is preferably made of a fine mesh or trans­parent heat resistant plastic or corresponding material.

[0015] One embodiment of the present invention will below be described in connection with the attatched drawings, wherein:

Fig. 1 shows the device according to the invention in a first embodiment in upfolded position, where the switch panel may be served at the same time as possible pots and frying pans are secured from accessability for children. In this embodiment there is not mounted an extra down­folding panel in front of or behind the front panel 1 of the children safety device (see fig. 3). The side wings 2 are hinged about the axis A1-A3 so that these may be folded down in 90° in correspondence with the top plate 3 of the stove. The front panel 1 of the device must accordingly slide down in tracks A6 simultaneously as the bolt A4 slides along track A5 when the side wings 2 are folded down.

Fig. 2 shows an embodiment of the device according to the invention in a down-folded position. In this position the switch panel of the stove is protected behind the front plate 1, and can not be served unless the children safety device is folded up.

Fig. 3 shows a second embodiment of the invnetion which comprises an additional front panel I which may slide in the same or different tracks that the leading tracks for front panel 1. Such an additional panel has the purpose to slide down and block for unintended use of both the switch panel of the stove and the door of the stove.

[0016] In the figures A2 represents a steering bolt for the front plate sliding in track A6. A7 is a track for fastening screws for different stove types.

[0017] DET 2 shows that the device may be locked in an open position on account of that the sliding track A5 has an angle of 90° as shown in the drawing. Bolt A4 locks accordingly the side wings in a vertical position when the front plate is pressed a little down from completely upfolded position. The block (lock) is accordingly made free by lifting the front plate a bit up so that bolt A4 gets out from the angle track and may be moved feely along the sliding track A5. The side wings may now be folded down with a slight pressure. The front plate slides thereby also down along the sliding track A6 and blocks the switch panel.

[0018] DET 1 shows how the front plate is secured to the fastening plate.

Claims

1. Children safety device for cookers/stoves comprising at least one plane, vertical front part (1) and to the front part attatched side walls (2) which are pivotably secured to the stove, characterized in that the fron part (1) in a down-folded position extends nownwards and covers at least the switch panel of the stove, and in an upfolded position comprises at least a partly peripheral obstacle to prevent accessability to the heating plates of the stove, and where the side walls (2) cooperate with the vertical front part (1) in a correspondin upfolded or downfolded position.

2. Children safety device according to claim 1,
characterized in that the fron part comprises at least one vertical leading track.

3. Children safety device according to claim 1 or 2,
characterized in that the front part (1) comprises leding tracks for the peripheral obstacle.

4. Children safety device according to claim 1 - 3,
characterized in that the side plates of the device comprises horizontal hinges mounted on the stove top.

5. Children safety device according to claim 1 - 4,
characterized in the front plate in addition comprises a second front plate (I) which may be folded down below the lower edge of the first panel (1).

6. Children safety device according to claim 5,
characterized in that the additional panel (I) comprises leading devices, preferably sliding means, for folding down the additional panel (I).

7. Children safety device according to claim 5 - 6,
characterized in that the additional panel (I) may be folded down as far as to the oven door of the stove.

8. Children safety device according to claim 1 - 7,
characterized in that the first (1) and/or second (I) panel is made of netting or heat resisant transparent plastic.

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